Wu Shattered Star River

"What the hell? Are you kidding me?"

Yin Li, standing outside, saw several Jiang Han clones emerge but remained foolishly motionless, leaving him speechless.

He could see through these clones with a single glance. What was Jiang Han doing, creating several clones only to have them stand there like idiots? Was this a deliberate attempt to mock him?

He didn't act rashly but waited patiently inside the palace, wanting to see if Jiang Han's real body would emerge.

After waiting for the time it takes to burn an incense stick, Jiang Han made no move. Yin Li's body flashed as he appeared outside the palace, standing beside the clones.

He carefully sensed them and confirmed they were indeed clones, mere illusions conjured by some technique.

Ultimately, these things were formed from magical power, merely resembling Jiang Han but having no real connection to him.

Therefore, he couldn't even be bothered to shatter these clones. Destroying them would be pointless. Leaving them might allow Jiang Han to sense them, and if he discovered they hadn't been destroyed, his real body might come out?

His body flashed as he returned to the palace, continuing to wait.

He was overthinking things…

Jiang Han had no intention of coming out at all. Knowing Yin Li was outside, how could he possibly emerge?

He sat down under the Ice God Tree, contemplating a way to break the situation.

"These clones are no good. If only I could create clones like Little Vermilion Bird… Cloning technique?"

Jiang Han muttered to himself, suddenly recalling something. He took out a spatial ring, and a flash of light revealed a beast-skin scroll.

This beast-skin scroll recorded a cloning technique from a Saint Ruler of the Heavenly Yin race. However, the technique was incomplete. Jiang Han had glanced at it before but found it confusing.

The beast-skin scroll was quite old, and the skin was clearly from a very high-grade exotic beast, indicating the technique was of a high level.

Since there was no other way, Jiang Han began to try and comprehend the cloning technique.

He carefully read the beast-skin scroll a dozen times, discovering the damage wasn't too severe, only a corner was torn, losing a quarter of it.

However, that quarter was missing several thousand words, increasing the difficulty of comprehending the technique tenfold. Comprehending such a technique was already difficult, and now the incantation was incomplete?

"Let's give it a try!"

Jiang Han memorized all the incantations and then sent his soul into the Heavenly Beast Cauldron, beginning to deduce the missing parts.

He was clear on one point—to deduce this technique, he had to first deduce the missing words and complete the incantation before comprehending the technique. Otherwise, it would be impossible.

Fortunately, he had the Heavenly Beast Cauldron, granting him a hundred times the time. Otherwise, he might not deduce anything even after ten or eight years.

Jiang Han didn't care about anything else and sat down under the Ice God Tree, focusing on the deduction.

Having already broken through to the Saint Ruler realm, he didn't know how to cultivate in the short term, making it very, very difficult to increase his combat power.

Fighting a Dao Ancestor realm expert in the short term was a pipe dream.

He only had one path: find a way to lure Yin Li away, then immediately escape and find a way to leave the Northern Region and return to the Eastern Region.

Therefore, this incomplete cloning technique was his only way out for now. He would see if he could successfully cultivate it, and whether it would be useful remained to be seen.

He wholeheartedly focused on the deduction, ignoring everything else. If Yin Li managed to enter, he would be unable to escape death anyway, so there was nothing to say.

Time passed quickly!

In the blink of an eye, a month had passed. Jiang Han had deduced for more than eight years inside the Heavenly Beast Cauldron, but progress was slow. He had only deduced a hundred or so words of the incantation, and even those weren't necessarily correct.

If even one sentence was wrong, then everything that followed would be wrong.

He had no other choice but to continue deducing.

The Saint Ruler of the Heavenly Yin race outside had long since returned and brought two Heavenly Fortune race members with him.

However, these two Heavenly Fortune race members were stationed in the passage, afraid to go inside. If Jiang Han released Little Vermilion Bird again, they might be burned to death.

The Saint Ruler was initially confused when he saw several Jiang Hans inside, but he later realized they were fake bodies.

Yin Li came out and had the two Heavenly Fortune race members track Jiang Han. They had collected a lot of Jiang Han's blood before, enough for the Heavenly Fortune race to track.

After tracking for a while, the two Heavenly Fortune race members confirmed that Jiang Han was still here.

Yin Li was relieved and flashed back into the palace to continue guarding.

He wasn't in a hurry. Anyway, so much time had already passed, and the embarrassment he should have felt had already been felt. A little more time wouldn't matter.

Jiang Han releasing Little Vermilion Bird and creating clones proved one thing—Jiang Han couldn't sense the situation outside, and Jiang Han kept trying, which meant he really wanted to come out.

Since Jiang Han was so anxious, Yin Li wasn't in a hurry. For someone who had lived for over a million years, guarding here for a few decades was like a few months for an ordinary person.

As long as he could capture or kill Jiang Han, he could completely wash away the Heavenly Yin race's shame.

He also firmly believed that Jiang Han couldn't escape. As long as he was stationed here, a mere Heavenly Emperor could never escape from under his nose.

Even if Jiang Han could escape, he wouldn't be able to escape the Northern Region. Because the three entrances connecting the Northern Region to the Eastern, Western, and Central Regions were all guarded by strong members of the Heavenly Yin race. Every entrance was thoroughly inspected by soldiers, making it impossible for Jiang Han to escape.

Time flowed quickly, and another month soon passed, but Jiang Han still hadn't come out.

However, a slight movement echoed from the bottom of the mountain today.

Yin Li sensed the movement and flashed out, roaring at the Saint Ruler and the two Heavenly Fortune race members, "The Insect King is coming out! You retreat! Also, go and invite the Clan King over."

Yin Li wasn't afraid of the Insect King, but he was afraid that if he fought the Insect King, Jiang Han would take the opportunity to escape.

"Go!"

The Saint Ruler and the two Heavenly Fortune race members were terrified when they heard the Insect King was coming out and quickly fled outwards, especially the two Heavenly Fortune race members.

"Whoosh!"

The Insect King was very fast, whistling out. Yin Li didn't actively meet it but waited for the Insect King to fly over before attacking.

He positioned the battlefield at Jiang Han's entrance, which would minimize the chance of Jiang Han escaping in the chaos.

"Boom boom boom boom!"

The Insect King had rested for a period of time and recovered its energy, battling Yin Li.

Yin Li didn't dare to use his full strength because he had to watch out for Jiang Han escaping, so he focused on entangling the Insect King, waiting for Yin Qi to arrive.

The Insect King was strong, but it was almost impossible to kill Yin Li, so the two sides fought fiercely together.

After fighting fiercely for three hours, Yin Qi arrived. He nodded at Yin Li and said, "Second Uncle, I just asked the Heavenly Fortune race members, and Jiang Han is still inside."

"Good!"

Yin Li breathed a sigh of relief. A murderous intent erupted in his eyes as he said in a deep voice, "Keeping this beast alive will always be a disaster. Should we completely destroy it this time?"

As long as the Insect King existed, countless magical insects would appear here again after a period of time. Many cultivators in Heavenly Yin Continent died at the hands of magical insects every year.

They hadn't cleared them out before because the Heavenly Yin race wanted to keep a trial ground. This time, Yin Li wanted to completely kill it, mainly because he was afraid it would occasionally cause trouble, giving Jiang Han an opportunity.

"Well… kill it!"

Yin Qi nodded and said, "His Majesty is focused on conquering the Central Region. It is estimated that the war with the Central Region is about to break out, and the rear cannot be unstable."

"Kill!"

The light from the long sword in Yin Li's hand shone brightly, shooting towards the Insect King.